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April 2018: Kushner Cos. signs 99-year lease deal at money-losing tower

The real estate company run by White House adviser Jared Kushner’s family has signed a deal to lease the office space at the money-losing Manhattan skyscraper that serves as the company’s headquarters.

The Canadian firm Brookfield Asset Management announced Friday it had signed a 99-year lease at 666 Fifth Avenue. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The deal eases the pressure on Kushner Cos., the real estate firm run by Jared Kushner’s father, Charles. The building has been losing money since Jared Kushner bought it for a record $1.8 billion in 2007. About a third of the office space is empty and a $1.2 billion mortgage is coming due early next year.

Related voat post by @Piscina John Podesta, BAM, Blackstone fraudulently stealing from taxpayers & shareholders

From 2009 until 2012, Heather Podesta served as lobbyist for Brookfield Asset Management (BAM), and she's been lobbying on behalf of Brookfield Power since 2011.

letsdothis3 ago

2U Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2U_(company)

2U, Inc. (formerly 2tor Inc.) is an educational technology company that partners with leading nonprofit colleges and universities to offer online degree programs.[2][3][4][5] The company supplies its partner universities with a cloud-based software-as-a-service platform coupled with a suite of technology-enabled services, including coursework design, infrastructural support and capital to deliver instruction to students. 2U was founded in 2008 by John Katzman (founder of The Princeton Review). Co-founders include Chip Paucek (former CEO of Hooked on Phonics) and Jeremy Johnson; Paucek remains with the company as CEO.

Prior to its IPO, the company was venture-backed and raised $96 million. Investors included Bessemer Venture Partners, Highland Capital Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, City Light Capital, SVB Capital and WestRiver Capital.[9] In September 2017, It was reported that, Rani Hammond joined 2U as Chief People Officer.

Paul Maeder https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=81051&privcapId=20955

Mr. Paul A. Maeder has been Director at Carbon Black, Inc. since September 2015. He is a Founding Partner, Co-Founder, Managing General Partner, General Partner and Chairman at Highland Capital Partners. Mr. Maeder focuses on enterprise technology, robotics, software and factory automation and online education.

He has been the Chairman of the Board at 2U, Inc. since November 2012 and serves as its Director since February 2010. He currently serves as a Member of the Board of Overseers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Board of Overseers of the Boston Museum of Science and The New England Aquarium. Mr. Maeder serves as a Member of the Harvard Stem Cell Advisory Board, the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean’s Advisory Group.

John Katzman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Katzman

John Katzman (born October 10, 1959) is best known as an educationalist. He has established a number of companies which assist students with their studies and career choices. He has also authored a number of books on the subject.

Katzman was born in New York City, and grew up there with brother Richard, and sister, Julie.

Julie Katzman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Katzman

Julie Katzman (born December 6, 1961) is the Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of the Inter-American Development Bank.

She is followed on Twitter by Paolo Zampolli ;-)

https://www.iadb.org/en/about-us/overview

Her husband is Anthony Lake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Lake

William Anthony Kirsopp Lake (born April 2, 1939) is the Executive Director of the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF), author, academic, and former American diplomat, Foreign Service Officer, and political advisor. He has been a foreign policy advisor to many Democratic U.S. presidents and presidential candidates, and served as National Security Advisor under U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.

Lake is the grandson of Kirsopp Lake, a member of the Church of England clergy who came from Oxford, England, to America in 1914 to teach New Testament studies at Harvard. Lake's father, Gerard Kirsopp Lake, was a New Deal Democrat, and his mother, Eleanor (née van Someren Hard), a Republican.

Following Clinton's 1996 re-election, he nominated Lake to become the Director of Central Intelligence,[10] but his nomination was withdrawn due to Republican opposition.

Lake was a foreign policy adviser for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, having endorsed him over Senator Hillary Clinton, whom he had worked alongside during the Clinton administration.[13][14] Lake was considered a potential Secretary of State until Senator Clinton was named to the position.

Lawrence Katzman is the father of John and Julie (and Richard) https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=lawrence-katzman&pid=179417168&fhid=2086

Larry Katzman, a widely published cartoonist, successful businessman, avid skier and world traveler, died on March 26th at 93. Born Alvin Lawrence Katzman to Max Katzman and the former Lillian Goldfarb, he grew up in Utica, NY and Brooklyn. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Electrical Engineering, he served in Germany with the US Army Signal Corps in the 3118th Service Group.

Larry worked with his father and later with his son Richard to grow the Kaz Manufacturing Company from a start-up created to sell Max's invention, the electric vaporizer, into a $500 million global consumer appliances company. Larry also served on the boards of The World Presidents Organization and a number of business organizations.

Who Were 2016's Most Active Ed-Tech Investors?

Omidyar Network – investments include Andela, Ellevation, Platzi, Skillshare, Spark Schools, Tinkergarten

Sequoia Capital – investments include BYJU’s, Cuemath, Everwise, VIPKID, Zuoyebang

John Katzman (co-founder of The Princeton Review and 2U) – investments include StudySoup, Tabtor Math, Tinkergarten, Tynker

Richard Branson invested in Codecademy

Mark Cuban and Chris Sacca invested in Brightwheel after the startup appeared on the reality TV show Shark Tank

See also: Peter Thiel’s ed-tech investment portfolio; Mark Zuckerberg’s ed-tech investment portfolio; the Emerson Collective’s ed-tech portfolio; Y Combinator’s ed-tech portfolio; Gates Foundation grant recipients in 2016

Peter Thiel http://hackeducation.com/2016/10/16/thiel-trump-education-technology

Well-known for his libertarian beliefs, Peter Thiel wrote in a 2009 article for the Cato Institute that “Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women – two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians – have rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy’ into an oxymoron.”

Thiel has funded the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. [So has Jeffrey Epstein.]

He’s also a financial backer of OpenAI (along with Elon Musk, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, and Y Combinator president Sam Altman), a non-profit research organization

Thiel and his VC firm Founder’s Fund’s Education Technology Investments (since 2010) : Lore (learning management system, formerly Coursekit, acquired by Noodle) - See John Katzman https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-12-01-with-14m-fundraise-noodle-wants-colleges-to-pick-and-choose-how-they-build-online-programs

According to The Atlantic, just five companies—2U, Academic Partnerships, Bisk, Pearson Embanet, and Wiley Education Services—control nearly half of the OPM market

letsdothis3 ago

November 2015 article: Online Art Auction Company Doubles Space in 30 Cooper Square

Paddle8, an online auction house and marketplace for art, jewelry and other objects, has signed a new lease for 10 years, expanding its space to 13,000 square feet at 30 Cooper Square, Commercial Observer has learned.

Asking rent in the building ranges from $60 to $70 per square foot. The landlord is the estate of the late artist Tom Wesselmann, which uses the name 30 Cooper Square Partnership LLC.

Tom Wesselmann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wesselmann

Thomas K. Wesselmann (February 23, 1931 – December 17, 2004) was an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture.

He was drafted into the US Army in 1952, but spent his service years stateside. During that time he made his first cartoons, and became interested in pursuing a career in cartooning. After his discharge he completed his psychology degree in 1954, whereupon he began to study drawing at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Cooper Union accepted him in 1956, and he continued his studies in New York.

Wesselmann also admired the work of Willem de Kooning, but he soon rejected action painting: “He realized he had to find his own passion he felt he had to deny to himself all that he loved in de Kooning, and go in as opposite a direction as possible."

Kooning related voat post: The New York Police Foundation and their Anthony Weiner and Clinton connections

Member: Clyde R Brownstone : involved with The Steven A and Alexandra M Cohen Foundation, Steven Cohen is the founder of Point72 Asset Management. Cohen is reportedly building a private museum for some of his artwork on his Greenwich property. He owns or has owned artworks by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Giacometti, Willem de Kooning, Jeff Koons, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol.

Point72 Asset Management :A specialized surveillance unit, composed of ex-CIA, FBI and SEC investigators,[12] was created to emphasize the need for compliance by traders, and in 2014, the firm retained Palantir Technologies, Inc., a Central Intelligence Agency-backed software maker to provide a new tool for compliance and surveillance

Through Henry Geldzahler, Wesselmann met Alex Katz, who offered him a show at the Tanager Gallery. Wesselmann's first solo show was held there later that year, representing both the large and small Great American Nude collages.

Another NYPF board member Ellen Katz https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2790300/14481334 is a trustee of the Phoenix Art Museum https://littlesis.org/person/46626/Ellen_Katz

Phoenix Art Museum Board of Trustees http://www.phxart.org/visit/aboutus/boardoftrustees

Blair J. Portigal President Artemis Capital LLC

Artemis you say?

Lisa Andrew and Blair Portigal Marry in Beverly Hills

Blair’s parents: Elodee Portigal and the late Arnold Portigal, Paradise Valley, Arizona

Doing a search for "Arnold Portigal, Paradise Valley, Arizona" pulls up all kinds if interesting stuff...

Like this : https://imgur.com/a/1o8gdDI Cerebus Capital LLC ! at 4460 E Valley Vista Ln Paradise Valley, AZ 85253 and what an interesting neighbourhood that is.. (unitarian universalist congregagtion of phoenix is nearby :https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1845516/9035749)

Close by is Cabe and Cato Inc. Something very odd about this company. Perhaps someone here has the time to look into them. I already have too many fingers in too many pies.

Arnold Portigal contributed to $1500 to JOHN MCCAIN 2008 INC. (MCCAIN, JOHN S.) on 03/30/2007 http://www.city-data.com/elec2/08/elec-PARADISE-VALLEY-AZ-08-part1.html

And again in 2008 : https://www.opensecrets.org/PRES08/search.php?cid=ALL&name=&employ=&cycle=2008&state=&zip=85253&amt=a&sort=A&page=11

The Portigals move in some rarified air in Arizona. Lisa Portigal is here with Gloria Vanderbilt and others in this publication https://authorsluncheonaz.org/pdf/Program_2017_Email.pdf

Paradise Valley also brought up a list of properties; https://www.trivago.ch/paradise-valley-60029/hotel/sanctuary-on-camelback-mountain-60382 including Arizona Biltmore, A Waldorf Astoria Resort

voat related posts for Biltmore Vacation Resorts, Inc. :: Pizzagate subverse fact checking.. calling researchers.. Is the stepfather of Cesar Sayoc connected to the mob? Document inside...

Next up from the above court case: George Wuagneux

Appellants Wuagneux and Ostrer likewise conspired to promote the kickback scheme by taking advantage of the other appellants' positions of influence within the Union organization.

https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=9249236&privcapId=981581&previousCapId=981581&previousTitle=Absolutesky%252520Inc.

Mr. George Wuagneux has been Chairman of the Board at Biltmore Vacation Resorts, Inc. since February 28, 1998 and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer since February 28, 1998.

Chairman, AbsoluteSKY, Inc.

Edward Wuagneux (brother) https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=9249254&privcapId=981581

Mr. Edward Wuagneux has been Biltmore Vacation Resorts, Inc.'s Secretary and Director since January 29, 1999. Mr. Wuagneux served as a Treasurer of Biltmore Vacation Resorts, Inc. from January 29, 1999 to December 15, 1999. Mr. Wuagneux with over 26 years of experience as a licensed general contractor. He is also President of Sage, a subsidiary of Biltmore Vacation Resorts, Inc. , which functions as the builder of its Real Estate Projects. He has built condominiums, multi-family projects, retirement villages, golf courses, single family developments, office buildings, shopping centers and nursing homes. His duties also include interfacing with zoning boards, commissioners, and other government officials in the construction industry.

2010 article : Dolphin Tower builder had ties to reputed mobsters

Then and now, Wuagneux stuck out from a group that included union leaders and alleged mobsters from Chicago, New York, Miami and Fort Lauderdale....

....In 1983, in Arizona, Wuagneux was convicted of trafficking in stolen property and tampering with public records, state records show. There, he was sentenced to more than four years in prison, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections.

Wuagneux was released from the Arizona sentence in December 1988, department records show. It is unclear if the state and federal sentences were served concurrently.

A decade after his release, Wuagneux re-invented himself, in Las Vegas, and began building.

He formed Biltmore Vacation Resorts Inc., a timeshare company, in 1998. At the same time, he acquired a design firm and a publicly held shell corporation called Cyber Information Inc.

He also folded in Sage Design Builders Inc., a contractor led by his brother, Ed. Attempts to reach Ed Wuagneux, now 74, were unsuccessful. Cyber, traded over the counter, gave Wuagneux a platform to raise capital. He owned nearly two-thirds of Biltmore’s stock.

Though Biltmore lost money -- it had “incurred significant losses” with an accumulated deficit of more than $1.9 million, a Securities and Exchange Commission filing in July 2000 shows -- it had vast ambition.

It planned to develop a pair of timeshare projects -- the 264-unit Biltmore Vacation Village on 20 acres in Bullhead City, Ariz., and St. Tropez Vacation Resort, in Las Vegas -- at a cost of $203 million.It could not be determined whether either project reached fruition. Biltmore’s telephone number has been disconnected, and numbers for each of the resorts go unanswered.

St. Tropez, across from the Hard Rock Cafe Hotel & Casino, is in the process of being converted to the Rumor resort, after being acquired by Siegel Group Properties.

Wuagneux died in February 2002, at age 68, in Broward County, records show. By then, his convictions and organized crime associations were long behind him.

Biltmore Trading Resorts Inc : 2110 E Flamingo Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89119 - is in Paradise, Nevada.

Paddock connections?


AbsoluteSKY, Inc. https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=981581

AbsoluteSKY, Inc. develops and delivers radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions and services to the retail industry in Canada and internationally. The company offers intelliTRACKER, an RFID product suite that includes tags, readers, and software providing instantaneous physical inventory, automated store receiving, direct store to store transfer control, automated markdown counts and control, warehouse receiving and shipping, style aging tracking and control, electronic article surveillance, time and attendance, and RFID-enabled POS, as well as layaway, display, and damaged inventory control and other capabilities.

Uhm, when I click on the website link for AbsoluteSKY, I get an online shoe company ??? http://www.absolutesky.ca/

https://www.internic.ca/whois/www.absolutesky.ca

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John McCain's family fortune was set up by the Bronfman family, a Jewish crime family from Montreal and one of the most powerful Zionist families in the world with links to the Rothschilds. (

First of all the Bronfmans are one of the most powerful Zionist families in the world with close links to the Rothschilds.

http://americanfreepress.net/the-king-of-the-jews-is-dead/

Big-Time Gangsters Set up McCain's Family Fortune The Buchanan-hating Bronfman family are the "godfathers" behind the organized crime empire in Arizona that spawned the political career of "reformer" John McCain. By Michael Collins Piper

In 1976 a crusading Phoenix reporter, Don Bolles, was murdered by a car-bomb after writing a series of stories exposing the organized crime connections of well-known figures in Arizona, including one Jim Hensley.

Five years later "Honest John" McCain arrived in Arizona as the new husband of Hensley's daughter, Cindy. "From the moment McCain landed in Phoenix," according to Charles Lewis of the Center for Public Integrity, "the Hensleys were key sponsors of his political career."


Help Needed: The McCain Institute & it's Human Trafficking Advisory Council

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1665583/8150043

Gilbert M. Orrantia Gilbert M. Orrantia - Director AZDOHS Director, Arizona Department of Homeland Security Divider Line

Gilbert Orrantia became the Director of the Arizona Department of Homeland Security in June, 2009. Prior to heading Arizona’s Homeland Security efforts at the State, he served in the FBI for 26 years.

Mr. Orrantia brings a national and global perspective on counterterrorism that is gained from vast counterterrorism experience including the supervision of an FBI counterterrorism squad in Phoenix and serving eight years as a Supervisory Special Agent. For four years he helped lead the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in Phoenix, Arizona located at Arizona’s fusion center, known as the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center (ACTIC).

Recognized as an expert in investigations of terrorism, drugs and violent crimes, Mr. Orrantia’s successful FBI law enforcement career is reflected in the numerous awards and commendations he received. Among them are two of the FBI’s highest commendations: the Medal of Valor and the FBI Star. These awards were made to Mr. Orrantia for his role in the deadliest firefight in FBI history;- a gun battle known as the “Miami Shootout” in which two fellow FBI agents were killed.

Mr. Orrantia has lectured to members of the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia on officer safety and survival and continues to share his expertise in surviving a deadly encounter with numerous law enforcement agencies.

Director Orrantia currently serves on the Executive Committee of the National Governors Association Homeland Security Advisors Council and also serves as a Tri-Chair of the National Homeland Security Consortium.

In April of 2013, he was appointed by Governor Jan Brewer to serve as Co-Chair of the Governor’s Task Force on Human Trafficking.


John McCain's recent unhinged behavior "PissGate" explained (?) involved with Haiti, NGOs, Blackwater, Lockheed, etc - what skeletons are in his closet

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1567335/7640457

Another interesting thing to note was the human trafficking ring in Ahwatukee neighborhood in Phoenix, AZ on 11/1/16. It was reported as US Postal Investigation that >12 children were staying at home & had set up sting operation at home acrosss street. It was reported locally, then MSM & local officials began back pedaling quickly & stated that DOJ was taking over...no arrests have been made & no further updates. Article: http://www.kgun9.com/news/official-human-smuggling-ring-busted-in-ahwatukee Video from station: http://www.12news.com/news/local/valley/investigation-in-ahwatukee-neighborhood/345948940

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https://archive.fo/HkH1c :

The New Hot Spot for NYC Office Space: Brooklyn - WSJ

https://archive.fo/URb9g :

[intheMatrixxx] on Twitter: "#NXIVM IS BIGGER than we think. Bronfman is a drug running Bloodline family. Bronfman also runs Canada. French Canada? Payseur? Bronfman? See citation from CIA website. t.co/euyMSedXzy WE ARE WINNING! @POTUS #QArmy #Payseur #Bronfman #DoITQ #QFear… t.co/m5kZtpnwvB"

https://archive.fo/J7QXY :

Mark Zuckerberg and Chuck Schumer in talks at Allen & Co conference | Daily Mail Online

https://files.catbox.moe/a8r5h9.jpg :


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letsdothis3 ago

More 'random' thoughts.. putting it here for anyone who might be able to follow along for now...

The New Hot Spot for NYC Office Space: Brooklyn

Have been planning to do a post on the Beckhams and the connections in Dover Street where Mrs. Beckham has her flagship store in London. Dover Street is a location of freemasonry and spooksville relevance... check out the other properties there if you're interested @think-

Brooklyn Beckham attended Parsons in NY. What's so interesting about that college?

think- ago

Dover Street is a location of freemasonry and spooksville relevance...

Brooklyn Beckham attended Parsons in NY. What's so interesting about that college?

Thanks, @letsdothis3!

letsdothis3 ago

Forgot to add: Little known fact: the Beckhams are into Kabbalah. Wonder who introduced them to that?

letsdothis3 ago

By the way, for those of you interested in magick, the occult, freemasonry, numerology and the like...

72 = 9 ... nine is equivalent to ONE in occultic terms

The Number 9 | The Secret Knowledge of The Ancients Number Nine Code 911

tag words: Tesla 3, 6, 9